his opsec was trash . he left tons of DNA evidence and he was wearing a very specific backpack making it easy for cops to track him , once he ditched it he had enough cameras behind him that he appeared on that he could have been tracked further plus the showing his face while flirting with a receptionist . see this video by The Hated One (youtube.com , use your preferred privacy friendly front end)
depends on your format ? if the format is binary anyway or has binary blobs (ie it needs a program that is able to handle octets outside the printable range) and using those characters does not introduce any ambiguities with the format then go for it . ANSI and related control codes all start with
0x1B